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Recent Examples of prison camp
This last plot strand crimps some of Accountant’s fast, loose fun: Kids in prison camps — and this one could end up a death camp, if the villains have their way — aren’t very entertaining.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.
—Quang X. Pham, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.
—Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.
—Quang X. Pham, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.
—Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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The film will bring to life the magical world that Fredy Hirsch created for Jewish children, first in Prague under the Nuremberg Laws, and later as a prisoner in the concentration camps of Terezin and Auschwitz.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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At the royal event on Tuesday, May 20, the Princess of Wales shared a warm embrace with Steven Frank, a man originally from Amsterdam who lived through multiple concentration camps as a child.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Eventually, they were sent to a work camp in the wilds of Siberia where Yetta shared a room with a horse and subsisted on frozen food.—
Malina Saval,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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In that case, a man incarcerated in a local jail filed a complaint with CLERB alleging that deputies damaged his personal property and mishandled legal documents during a cell search.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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In a previous life, the tournament would have been the high point of his professional career, but languishing in a Qatari jail, Ibhais could not bear witnessing the four-week football extravaganza playing out in the Gulf nation.—
Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The Philadelphia Phillies were already short in the bullpen after Jordan Romano struggled at the start of the season.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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The Bombers’ bullpen, meanwhile, ranked sixth in ERA (3.29), fifth in fWAR (2.4) and third in K% (26.6).—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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